Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 1: The Oedipus Tyrannus. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1887.

  1. Be gone, to your ruin; be gone this instant! Will you not turn your back and leave this house?
Teiresias
  1. I would not have come if you had not called me.
Oedipus
  1. I did not know you would speak foolishly, for otherwise it would have been a long time before I summoned you to my home.
Teiresias
  1. I was born like this—as you think, a fool, but in the opinion of the parents who bore you, quite sane.